Re: kfree safe in interrupt context?

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In message <20010817211406.A21326@hq2> you write:
> Seems like calling kfree from interrupt context should
> be ok, but is it?
> If it is safe, is this considered a good thing or not?

Yes, and it logically has to be, as kmalloc(..., GFP_ATOMIC) is safe
from interrupt context.

The network code does this all the time, for example.

Hope that helps,
Rusty.

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